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Call for Participation
EKAW 2006 - 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management
Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks
2 - 6 October 2006
Podebrady (near Prague), Czech Republic
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http://ekaw.vse.cz

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• List of accepted papers posted (see http://ekaw.vse.cz/accepted-papers.php)

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• Associated workshops still accept submissions (see their webpages available from http://ekaw.vse.cz/workshop-tutorials.php)

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• Registration form, accomodation information and social event information are available (see http://ekaw.vse.cz)

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Key Areas (see http://ekaw.vse.cz for a more detailed list):
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• Ontologies and the Semantic Web
• Semantics for Grid and Web Services
• Knowledge and Social Networks
• Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.

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Invited talks
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• Pedro Domingos (University of Washington, USA): Learning, Logic, and Probability: A Unified View

• Andrzej Nowak (Warsaw University, Poland): Information and influence in social networks

• Alan Rector (University of Manchester, UK): Whose knowledge? Whose questions? Whose answers? Conflicting Preconceptions for Knowledge Intensive Systems

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Workshops
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• Workshop on Imperfect Knowledge Modeling

• Workshop on Ontology Evolution and Multimedia Information Extraction

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Tutorials
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• Human Language Technology (HLT) for Knowledge Acquisition for the Semantic Web

• Ontology Design Patterns

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Organisers
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Conference Co-chairs (joint contact: ekaw06chair@uni-koblenz.de):

• Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
• Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Workshop and Tutorial Chair:

• Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany

Poster Chair:

• Helena Sofia Pinto, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Demo Chair:

• Martin Labsky, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic

Local Arrangements:

• Andrea Kutnarova, Action M Agency, andrea@action-m.com

Programme Committee:

• Karl Aberer, EPFL (CH)
• Stuart Aitken, University of Edinburgh (UK)
• Hans Akkermans, Free University of Amsterdam (NL)
• Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT- CNRS Toulouse (FR)
• Richard Benjamins, iSOCO (ES)
• Paulo Bouquet, University of Trento (IT)
• Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam (NL)
• Philipp Cimiano, University of Karlsruhe (DE)
• Olivier Corby, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (FR)
• Paul Compton, University of New South Wales (AU)
• Stefan Decker, DERI Ireland (IR)
• Rose Dieng, INRIA-Sophia-Antipolis (FR)
• John Domingue, Open University (UK)
• Martin Dzbor, The Open University (UK)
• Jerôme Euzenat, INRIA Rhône-Alpes (FR)
• Dieter Fensel, University Of Innsbruck (AT)
• Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (IT)
• Jennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland (US)
• Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES)
• Marko Grobelnik, JSI (SL)
• Udo Hahn, Jena University (DE)
• Michele Missikoff, CNR (IT)
• Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University (JP)
• Enrico Motta, The Open University (UK)
• Mark Musen, Stanford University (US)
• Enric Plaza I Cervera, Spanish Scientific Research Council, CSIC (ES)
• Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen (UK)
• Alan Rector, University of Manchester (UK)
• Ulrich Reimer, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen (CH)
• Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Paris-Sud (FR)
• Guus Schreiber, Free University of Amsterdam (NL)
• Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton (UK)
• Derek Sleeman, University of Aberdeen (UK)
• Pavel Smrz, Technical University of Brno (CZ)
• Wolf Siberski, University of Hannover (Germany)
• Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe (DE)
• Gerd Stumme, University of Kassel (DE)
• York Sure, University of Karlsruhe (DE)
• Annette ten Teije, Free University of Amsterdam (NL)
• Frank van Harmelen, Free University of Amsterdam (NL)
• Hannes Werthner, University of Innsbruck (AT)
• Mike Wooldridge, University of Liverpool (UK)

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Location
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Podebrady is a calm town situated 50 km to the east of Prague, easily reachable by car, by bus or by train in one hour. The town is famous for its spas and its royal descendent, King George of Podebrady. It was founded in 1224 near an important crossing on the Elbe river. As early as the 17th century a small spa was founded in Podebrady. The springs there were considered the most medicinal in the region with their high iron content. In the year 1905, an exceptionally strong spring with healing mineral water has been discovered in the courtyard of the Podebrady castle. Since 1908, heart, circulation and blood vessel diseases have been treated in the carbon bath with iron-containing water.

The EKAW 2006 Welcome Party will take place at the Podebrady castle, the birthplace of King George.

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  Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague
  Nam.W.Churchilla 4, 13067 Praha 3, CZECH REPUBLIC
  phone: +420 224095462, e-mail: svatek@vse.cz
  web: http://nb.vse.cz/~svatek/welcom_e.htm